Books like Lifting Belly

Rebecca Marks' intro is sharp until it's not. When she started to instruct us as to what Stein meant with every goddamn syllable, veering stupidly into hear-the-lady-poet-roar territory, was when I stopped reading her bit and got to the good bit.Stein's poem is a balloon, is sex, is a funny conversation while you wrap yourself up in the phone cord until you begin to lose your balance and then spin out again. Word witch. It's a classic erotic lesbian poem, did I mention that? Most importantly it reads like licking a battery.